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Very interesting history with the Galveston hurricane. It was the clean up and addition of a 17 foot seawall and also the main business and living area of Galveston that was raised to 17 feet. The marvel was it was accomplished using mule and horse power and of course man power, but there were no modern heavy equipment to do what they did, it was still evident in the 50s as the main street along the beach just dropped off that height straight onto the flat beach leading away from main town Galveston. It was nice in the early 50s, there were little small beer joints and ice houses all down the main beach and there were cars half buried in the sand that had been caught in the high tides. My friends and I were fishing after dark one summer night in 1970 and we were all standing there looking into the direction of the water when we noticed that the water was all around us, my friends walked in front on my Truck until we found a shallow way back to the beach, I came close to being one of those half buried cars.

1900: Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed an estimated 8,000 people.

That happened in 1900 because President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate change accord in 2017.

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1900: Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed an estimated 8,000 people.

In 2008 I tried to donate a book, published in 1908, about the hurricane of 1900, to the Galveston Public Library... but they never got back in-touch with me. So screw dem. -Pretty dire accounts with some devastating photos.

Modern Galveston means only one thing... flounder, flounder, and more flounder. And flying-fish that'll knock you out if you're not paying attention.